The pacifist from Hiroshima rebuilding Japan’s defences
Doubling down on a security agenda that hawkish former leader Shinzo Abe could only dream of, Fumio Kishida is increasing military spending and concentrating on security pacts.
Hiroshima, Japan | In Fumio Kishida’s hometown of Hiroshima, the reminder of the horrors of war are everywhere.
There are no structures in the city’s centre built before 1945, when a US atomic bomb levelled the metropolis and killed 140,000 people. The skeletal ruins of the only building left standing, a domed former industrial hall, has become an eerie monument to the devastating attack on Japan that helped end World War II.
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